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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

By : Iain Anderson
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Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing - Second Edition

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By: Iain Anderson

Overview of this book

Elevate your video editing skills with Final Cut Pro 10.7.1, the ultimate tool for efficient and professional editing, offering powerful new features to enhance your workflow and give your videos a stunning look. The second edition of this comprehensive guide covers exciting new features in FCP, teaching you how to streamline your workflow with customizable workspaces, shortcuts, and advanced trimming tools. Explore best-in-class titles and a comprehensive suite of visual effects in Final Cut Pro for dynamic videos, create a great-sounding mix with Final Cut Pro's audio tools, and utilize the magnetic timeline, multicam editing, and advanced color correction for every project. Whether you're creating content for social media, YouTube, or Hollywood, Final Cut Pro Efficient Editing, Second Edition is your ultimate guide to professional video editing. Get your copy today and take your video editing skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
PART 1: Importing and Organizing
7
PART 2: Rough Cut to Fine Cut
13
PART 3: Finishing and Exporting

Rating as Rejected

So far, there are two levels of “good” — the Favorite parts and the rest. But how about the “bad” parts? If you’d like to approach your rating process from the other end, you’ll want to get into Rejecting, and that’s what you’ll learn here.

Marking part of a clip as Rejected is the opposite of marking part of a clip as a Favorite: you’re saying that the selection is bad or unusable. The workflow is very similar, too:

  1. With the keyboard or mouse, mark In and Out points on a clip.
  2. Press the delete key (not forward delete) to mark that selection as Rejected:
Figure 5.12: The camera was shaky at the start of this clip, so I Rejected that section

Figure 5.12: The camera was shaky at the start of this clip, so I Rejected that section

If your current Browser view is showing All Clips, then you’ll see a red line appear on that part of the clip. A range cannot be both a Favorite and Rejected at the same time; it’s one or the other...